Digital Journal of Illustration |
Dan Ferrer
When did you start to dedicate to the world of illustration? We are all imaginative and resolute people when we are children, but as we grow, only a few We keeping to live in that creative world. So creating drawings and paintings since always, but professionally it was for Hip Hop Nation magazine that I did my first published works. It was an innocent and incredible sensation to feel that the drawings in the end it had become my job. How do you define your illustrations? Technically I like the contrast. That’s why I like to mix more detailed areas, with others more improvised and organic ones. A very detailed realistic face that
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has a brushstroke of white paint done without much care trimming the profile, is what I like. As for the content I like the synthesis. I take a very complex abstraction of the human being, like “time”, “death” or “justice” and I represent it in an image, in a theatrical way, almost as a mime, without many characters, without atrezzo ... direct, that at a glance you understand and instantly have a sensation. How do you decide what to include and what not? On the shelf of your house you probably have a book that you like to have around to look at it from time to time, some figure or a photo that gives you a positive memory ...